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Barnes & Noble Weighs Its E-Reader Investment — Even for a company with a lot of bad news lately, the bulletin from Barnes & Noble this month had an ominous feel. — Barnes & Noble, the nation's largest book chain, warned that when it reports fiscal 2013 third-quarter results on Thursday …

Samsung confirms Galaxy S IV for March 14th unveiling — We'd already heard from our sources that the Galaxy S III's successor would be unveiled on March 14th, and that's just been made official. In comments reported by Edaily, mobile chief JK Shin has said that the Galaxy S IV will indeed …

Google Glass Part 2: Binocular — A head mounted display ("HMD") is a display device worn on or about the head. HMDs usually incorporate some sort of near-to-eye optical system to display an image within a few centimeters of the human eye. Single eye displays are referred to as monocular HMDs …

webOS Finds New Life Yet Again, This Time in LG Televisions — Like Morris the cat, webOS would appear to have nine lives. — The operating system, developed by Palm and sold to Hewlett-Packard, is changing hands again. — Korean electronics giant LG is scooping up the technology and what remains of its development team.

Sony's sleek Xperia Tablet Z coming to the US for $499 — We're already familiar with the Xperia Tablet Z after Sony unveiled it in Japan last month, but now we know it's coming to the US. The company is using the occasion of Mobile World Congress 2013 to show off its latest slate to a wider audience …

Jason Kincaid On The Mythology Of TechCrunch — I was happily surprised to see Hunter Walk interview Jason Kincaid, one of the first TechCrunch employees. The interview is here and I'm reprinting it below. — Jason joined TechCrunch when it was still being run out of my house (before the city of Atherton kicked us out).

AT&T LTE coming to GM's 2015 fleet — Ready to trade your old car in for a shiny new mobile hotspot? AT&T and GM are using the international platform that is Mobile World Congress to announce a partnership that'll bring the carrier's LTE network to “millions of cars” under the Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac umbrellas.

HP Slate 7 hands-on (update: video) — Well, this might just be the biggest news to come out of Mobile World Congress. Long after discontinuing the TouchPad (and the rest of its mobile devices, for that matter) HP is back with a new tablet. This time, though, it runs not webOS, but an old safety: Android.